What is an ETF?
What are the benefits of investing in an ETF?
Diversification
ETFs provide investors with a simple and efficient way to gain instant exposure to a broad set of securities through a single trade.
Flexibility
ETFs trade like stocks, allowing investors to buy and sell them like any other stock on an exchange, anytime during market hours.
Greater choice
ETFs provide easy access to a wide range of asset classes including stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies or alternatives.
Lower fees
ETFs generally carry lower fees, such as Management Expense Ratio (MER), offering investors a low-cost way to invest.
What are the different types of ETFs?
Active ETFs
Active ETFs leverage the expertise of professional portfolio managers to aim for returns that not only track an underlying index or benchmark (beta) but also seek to provide a level of outperformance (alpha).
Passive ETFs
Passive ETFs are designed to track the performance of a specific index or basket of securities, such as large-cap U.S. equities or global bonds.
ETF types: How they can play a role in your portfolio (1:34)
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Understand the different types of ETFs and explore various portfolio strategies.
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An asset class groups similar investments, like fixed income, equity, or asset allocation, each with distinct risk and return profiles.
- Asset allocation
- Equity
- Equity income
- Fixed income
Active ETFs are managed by professionals making investment decisions, while passive ETFs track the performance of a specific index or benchmark.
- Active
- Passive
Investment strategies guide how ETFs select assets, such as focusing on sectors, duration, sustainability, or reducing market volatility.
- All-in-one
- Core
- Corporate bond
- Growth
- Growth and income
- Government bond
- Long-term
- Low volatility
- Mid-term
- Sector
- Short-term
- Sustainable
- Tactical asset allocation
- Tactical diversified
- Target maturity
- Canada
- Emerging market
- Global
- International
- North America
- U.S.
- CAD
- Currency hedged
- USD
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Learn more about the various features that differentiate ETFs and mutual funds.
For regulatory documents on CIBC ETFs, visit Reporting and Governance.
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